{"id":327733,"date":"2026-06-08T16:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327733\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:33:21","slug":"el-paso-police-seek-suspect-in-motel-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327733\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso police seek suspect in motel armed robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daniel Borunda, El Paso Times<\/p>\n

Sun, June 7, 2026 at 11:05 PM UTC<\/p>\n

El Paso police are seeking information to identify a man armed with a knife who robbed a motel along Interstate 10 in the East Side.<\/p>\n

The violent robbery occurred minutes before 4 a.m. on May 7 at the Quality Inn, 900 N. Yarbrough Drive next to Gateway East Boulevard near Bel Air High School, Crime Stoppers of El Paso said.<\/p>\n

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The unsolved case is the Crime Stoppers’ Crime of the Week.<\/p>\n

“In this particular case, the suspect walked in, rushed up to the counter, jumped over the counter, threatened the clerk with a knife and ended up pulling money out of the cash drawer,” Crime Stoppers liaison Sgt. Javier Sambrano said in a news release.<\/p>\n

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A security camera image shows an unidentified man in a hoodie armed with a knife who jumped over a counter and robbed the Quality Inn, 900 N. Yarbrough Drive next to Gateway East Boulevard in the early morning of May 7, 2026, in El Paso.<\/p>\n

The robber is believed to have fled in a red SUV on Gateway East, Crime Stoppers added<\/p>\n

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The man was about 5 feet 11 inches tall with a medium to large build and had his face covered with the hood of a light-colored hooded sweatshirt and a black facemask. He wore black gloves, dark-colored pants and brown shoes, police said.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on the motel robbery may anonymously call\u00a0Crime Stoppers of El Paso<\/a>\u00a0at 915-566-8477 (TIPS). Tipsters could be eligible for a cash reward if information leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n

Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com and\u00a0@BorundaDaniel<\/a>\u00a0on X.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Motel robbery at knifepoint is El Paso Crime of the Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Borunda, El Paso Times Sun, June 7, 2026 at 11:05 PM UTC El Paso police are seeking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[117082,4223,138,140,139,1785,99116],"class_list":["post-327733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-bel-air-high-school","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-police","tag-police-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}